Show i MAGAZINES I for Cor December Dl D cem r will ill make mako the tho languid notion fiction render reader pick up his Ills wits with interest and gratitude Tho installment of George Grorge Darr Barr cons serial Truxton King is s a L brilliant completion In In a to swirl of oC The Time novelette by b P C n fi entitled The Gem Gen Cullee Collector tor will give Ivo you ou as os delightful a two taro rO hours of Jf romancing ns os you have hud hilt In Inmany Inman inmany many man a I day ia and keep kol you nu guessing tl s ln und and at al tho the suns samo Uno time at the tho au 1111 escapade of oC a 1 han Komo young oung English h baronet whose post In iii America lui hl JC n hut but rosy Owen Oli Olivers vers Is story stor The Spirit strikes tho the note noto of Christmas cheer cher In a It lively lIel story oton of loving hearts through the rho timely hospitality ho of some Iome M me literary ry eople p ople A lady In ht thin tho Library by hy F 0 O Bartlett Is 10 a II deliciously funny funn story of a It bachelor and a baby and tho alto girl ShI gh I ho loves hut hint It Is I very von vor fur fill from flom being the tho timeworn plot of Jf such Puch elements Tho Tito Dark Daik Side Sid of oC Duty by I It U V F I P Is lit a n thrilling g slur of tho the hoer Boer war nn the danger dangerous Otis ous love lot of a n Boor Boer 1 girl Kir for an all English lIsh i soldier Jane Jano Guthrie has a charming g bridge whist story and Wolcott olcott heart Heard t tells another of his Ilia Interesting stories stones of social wrongs TongS righted bv by b a L fearless nian In The Mine Flold Plans Allen m rat tolls tells dramatically Illy in Tho TI it e Mans llan Wife Ire of lC tho the Irony Iron of or fate In the h e killing of or a nobler ambler and better man by b 1 the woman who loves him to save sao her Ito r married honor tenor for tOI a It worthless husband Mabel Thurston and Quentin M 11 Drake Drak have bins strikingly original oli stories In A 1 Christmas Stopover and anti Tho The Pearls Pearl s of Ordered Up Into Nine Nineveh sett eh by W r L fj Comfort is s a tycoon tremendously lousi strong story of a womans s vengeance turned to love Slid end faith In I n tho tracking tracT down don of or n LL hus has husband husband band Besides resides this score scole of or remarkable o stories there thero are arc essays on music le and an d bridge whist whilst articles on tho the contempo contemporary rat stage book hook criticism besides beside sl es S poems by b popular authors Altogether it itla I t la is a worthy Issue Felice Ferrero writes In iii tho Novem her iber er Survey Suney about the tho now new colony colon for fo r Italian lan Immigrants recently started in 1 n St s Helena N C In III tho the same sante Issue S Prof ProC Graham Taylor of or Chicago has an a n article artcle eu on tho the and tho the vice Ico situ situation alien atlon In Chicago in which ho lIe score scores s Gypsy Smith for his sensational en 1 methods of or parading through the lie red re light districts with a 1 band of or young youn g people v V o G Helser of the United States public health and marine hospi hospital till tai service writes on sanitation in tho rho Philippines and tells tell of tho reforms reform that have h o been Instituted since the ilie close of the war A vivid of or the Inspection of In Wisconsin Is given n by b Don E Mowry mid and Ellas Silas To 10 writes about the hardships of immigrant girls in Chicago Edward T 1 Devine discusses eH the recent mayoral mayoralty t I ty election In New Ne York and Lawrence Wilier oilier hots ha an can article on New e York as M Ma asa a social worker In which he outlines what has been b cn accomplished towards social reform in the metropolis through h the tho recently appropriated city elt budget The Tho spotlight of Interest has been heen swung from the tho Jungle to the Ice icebergs bergs b and polar pelal bears instead of ele elephants elephants elephants are the pawns of the game genie of or today toda The of tho rho explorer in the long In day and night at tho the top of I the world orld have the chinos of the un unknown unknown 1 known knowlI N C Wyeth has recently I painted a stirring picture of an Inci Incident Incident Incident i dent in the tho far north Around Aroun the sharp edge cd of an iceberg r glistening coldly white In lit the rays mys of the aurora lunges tho tim huge form of a savage polar beat bear Braced to meet his hi charge thiS the th intrepid explorer crouches every mus muss muscle ele cle d o taut tuut his ready read revolver poised to send end home tho the paralyzing bullet at the th propitious moment ills JIls two trusty Es Eg Eskimo kimo 1 guides armed with their rude ru o spears and in short knives bravely stand guard over the pack sledge The Tho situation is dramatic the treatment bold Dauntless courage ready r all for any mw emergency enc radiates from Crom tho rho whole scene And nd with Its desire to meet every ever demand courageously satisfactorily adequately the Popular Magazine tho big magazine has chos chosen en this th painting as typical of or Its en endeavor endeavor n I deavor and uses It on the cover of or Its first Issue for COI December Two years ago ngo I said that I was working on a plan by h which I hoped to cast a house rouse out of cement as a 0 casts a carwheel out of or Iron I now feel safe laCe in saying that I havo have solved oled tho the problem All my m pru pro experiments have hao proved successful suc slIe successful and in ht December or 01 January I expect to east Cot my first house hons If I succeed as IS I fc 1 certain I 1 shall the cement house will bp by my greatest In la It H will wll solve the problem of oC housing It H will take tako from fro tho city Ill slums everybody who alto is worth taking Why h I shall Intake mako It II possible to build a with a good cellar seven largo large 1 or 10 JO ordinary size rooms and aid a II bath for COl twelve t hundred dollars Come COllie out und s see e my molds mold As Thomas A Edison sold sail R hI this ho Ito d a 1 cap on his head hearl and led the way sway to his lug What hat ho lie hits has hll accomplished is described ed cd In the December number of Mun l tin sc s Magazine In an nn open space surrounded by and lathes where whelo what whal appear appeared ed to bo be the tho foundation walls walla and part par t of the first story stor of an sit iron house parA A A 1 over the top showed that they u were two ho Iron houses ono sot set within n i tho life other with an space sluice be he between between tween Into this Ills space cement OH Os pour poured poured ed then het hilt thit two Iron Irei houses hOll Cs will wll be betaken b taken down and antI the finished hed structure turo ture of oC artificial stone Itono will be ready read for Cor occupancy Ill dig the cellar of this thiM house with will witha wILlin t n a steam shovel Mr Ir Edison continued and east cast 11 It t In sIx sK hours Two loco boo locomotive locomotive motive crones cranes will trill ill tit lift the 32 cubic cub yards ard of cement that the th house will wit l pour It Into the tho openings at ut atthe u uthe t the top tOil The cement will trill pass through t 12 13 sluice boxes boxell and as ns It is lacing being pour poured ed Id a IJ number otmen ot of men will churn it with wit h Iron bars at U We the c end cn of or each ach of or which will bo be 0 a n largo large ball 1 Tho The hurting churning will wll willbo willbe 1 be bo for or tho the purpose of or sending waves wave s through the cement so that it t shall shat I fill Till every cry particle of or the molds And It Is a wonderful house that tho th p famous wizard of or Intends t to o build 11 lid There will 11 not be enough woo 1 to male make a hundred hun red dollar fire even If Ir i f all 1111 of or It were to be consumed Moor Floor 1 mantels picture unit ami decor decorations all will wll be of cement The Tho bath ball i tub and anal sinks sink wit wll 11 be cast cas caso t of o the same material matel al Edison Ellison says h ho no can make mako cement bath tubs that will wil willbe wilbe l be bl as smooth as highly polished glass glaws All that Is required to tai t do Is 15 to 10 have havo e highly polished polisher molds mold Wherever er r beauty is desired an extra finish will wall willbe willbe 1 be Uc put part on tho the casting forms |